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From: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Information on Amiga Technical Reference Seri
Message-ID: <22570@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 19 Jun 91 13:21:30 GMT
References: <3117@public.BTR.COM>
Reply-To: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <3117@public.BTR.COM> valentin@public.BTR.COM (Valentin Pepelea) writes:
>What imbeciles do with a useful tool is irrelevant. The above example of yours
>demontrated to what ridiculous lengths developers must go in order to make
>their program do what they want. They had no access to the source code.
>Perhaps if they had, they would have been able to figure out an OS friendly
>way to accomplish their objective. Pure speculation, of course.  :-)

Valentin, I thought that by now that a guy who portends to have such wisdom
would, by now, have seen the wisdom of the arguments.

And even if the arguments are not of high enough calibre to warrent your
consideration, your last comment has surprised me since a programmer of
your experience and skill would have known that the source would have no
way of telling you in what way the system will change.

Now, if you would just think about the methods that you must have learned
throughout your vast experience of software engineering, you will find that
the only way multi-programmer projects where one programmer uses routines
from another, be they within the same company or in the form of vender <->
customer or even operating system <-> developer, that it is the documented
interfaces that makes it possible for each side to change, enhance, and
optimize thier part of the system without damage to that of the other
parts.  Any knowledge other than the documented interfaces can not, and
infact *MUST* not be used and thus becomes unimportant.

Now, maybe you have achieved a new level of "awareness" that we poor
souls have not yet reached so we will have to continue along our blind
path hoping to find the light.  Please give us our peace such that we
may find the way.

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